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2015 Manly Wade Wellman Award preliminary eligibility list announced

Posted on 2014-12-03 at 04:49 by montsamu

The preliminary eligibility list for the 2015 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy has been announced, including 79 titles published by NC authors last year. Cover gallery time? Cover gallery time!

Whew! That's a lot of books.

UPDATE: A few more books and covers that weren't available the first go-round:

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Coming to Town: Julia Elliott for The Wilds at The Regulator Bookshop, interviewed by Bill Verner

Posted on 2014-12-02 at 15:12 by montsamu

Interview by Bill Verner:

On Friday, December 5^th at 7:00, at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, Pushcart Prize winning writer Julia Elliott will read from her debut collection The Wilds. The Wilds (Tin House Books) is a collection of genre-bending stories that, in the words of the starred Publishers Weekly review, “is a brilliant combination of emotion and grime, wit and horror.” Across the breadth of the 11 collected pieces, Julia applies her uniquely odd Southern Gothic voice to stories that range from

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The Hardest Part: F. Hampton Carmine on Abby and the Magic Key

Posted on 2014-11-25 at 17:57 by montsamu

Back in September, Raleigh author F. Hampton Carmine launched his new young reader / young adult novel with a reading at Wake Forest's Storyteller's Bookstore. "Abby and the Magic Key is a young adult magical romp through time and space with thirteen year old Abigail Stewart and her royal ancestor, Princess Elizabeth of Scotland. To mend their broken lives, these princesses, one lost to fear and privilege, the other lost to fear and neglect, find each other across time and space by way of a magic key and

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Friday Quick Updates: NC Speculative Fiction Night is tomorrow!

Posted on 2014-11-21 at 18:29 by montsamu

YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!

    That's all I've got. (No, seriously, I went through some previous images and this is what I've got handy.)

See you tomorrow at Quail Ridge Books!

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The Hardest Part/Coming to Town: Jaym Gates on War Stories

Posted on 2014-11-20 at 21:40 by montsamu

It's been a long time since we had a true "NC Speculative Fiction Night" and for the return of the reading series this Saturday, November 22 at Quail Ridge Books, you can blame Jaym Gates as instigator. As she has been as long as I've known her, she's been a busy author and editor of late -- most recently and notably a story in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters  and co-editing the anthology of which this essay speaks -- not to mention her continuing work as the Communications Director for SFWA and several

Posted in Coming to Town, The Hardest Part | Tagged jaym gates, quail ridge books, war stories

November newsletter: Garth Stein and NC Specualtive Fiction Night, and (in December) Julia Elliott and Fred Chappell

Posted on 2014-11-20 at 00:14 by montsamu

Vol 4. No 11. November 19, 2014: Whew! Already this month has seen William Gibson at Motorco and NC Comicon at the Durham Convention Center, and there's more yet in store with Garth Stein at Quail Ridge Books (tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 20) and with the return of the NC Speculative Fiction Night reading series this Saturday (Nov. 22) with "From the Trenches to the Stars" featuring military science fiction (War Stories, The Savior) and interstellar fantasy (Enoch the Traveler). Then in December we'll be

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Coming to Town: Garth Stein for A Sudden Light at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2014-11-19 at 12:00 by montsamu

Bestselling and award-winning author Garth Stein is on tour for his latest novel, A Sudden Light, and that tour brings him to Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books tomorrow, Thursday, November 20th at 7:30 pm. A household name for his best-selling novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, Stein returns with his first adult novel in six years, a true Pacific Northwest ghost story, turning the haunted manor of a timber magnate into a multi-generational playground and storyboard. Told alternately as a coming-of-age ghost

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Coming to Town: Lady Soliloque for NC Speculative Fiction Night at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2014-11-18 at 20:38 by montsamu

This Saturday evening (November 22, 7 pm) Quail Ridge Books hosts the next reading event in the NC Speculative Fiction Night series, "From the Trenches to the Stars", which is bringing together a fantastic panel of six authors for an evening of military science fiction and interstellar fantasy. It's for the latter where my interviewee today comes in. Charlotte author Lady Soliloque is the author of Immortalis Venatio: The Immortal Game and Enoch the Traveler: Tempestas Viator among other books and stories

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged enoch the traveler, lady soliloque, nc speculative fiction night, quail ridge books

The Hardest Part: Teresa Frohock on The Broken Road

Posted on 2014-11-13 at 19:20 by montsamu

North Carolina author Teresa Frohock's debut fantasy novel Miserere was published by Night Shade Books back in 2011, and since she has been seen in a couple of anthologies: Manifesto: UF and Neverland's Library Fantasy Anthology. Now she's back with a more lengthy tale, this time a novella, The Broken Road, where "The world of Lehbet is under siege. The threads that divide Lehbet from the mirror world of Heled are fraying, opening the way for an invasion by an alien enemy that feeds on human flesh." Here

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The Hardest Part: Stacey Cochran on Eddie and Sunny

Posted on 2014-11-12 at 16:57 by montsamu

Raleigh author Stacey Cochran has written in several genres, from mystery to horror, science fiction to poetry. His latest project, Eddie & Sunny, is a crime novel / love story he's elected to submit to the newly launched Kindle Scout program, a "crowdsourced slush reading" publishing project from Amazon which puts the choice of submitted books to reader votes; the winners receive a $1,500 advance and editing, design, and marketing support. This would be a big deal for Cochran's writing career, so if what

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